What We Learned At The 2025 NFL Draft Combine (Episode 845 with Evan Silva and Adam Levitan)

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🗓️ 6 March 2025

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

Adam Levitan and Evan Silva address the abundance of news emerging from the NFL Combine and what fantasy football news we can take from it.
In this episode, we discuss:
- Does Matthew Stafford returning to LA cement them as a Super Bowl contender?
- The likelihood of the Giants trading for the #1 overall pick
- Where can Tee Higgins find a long-term contract?
- Who starts under center in Pittsburgh next season?
- Are we any closer to knowing how the NFL will use Travis Hunter?

Timestamps:

3:18 - Cam Ward Clear QB1, Giants Eager To Trade Up?

6:38 - Shedeur Sanders Sees Stock Slump

10:12 - Matthew Stafford Resigns With Rams

13:35 - Sam Darnold Set To Become Unrestricted Free Agent

16:32 - Deebo Samuel Traded To Washington

21:20 - Travis Hunter’s Position Conundrum

23:43 - Davante Adams Cut by Jets

26:40 - Steelers Want Justin Fields Over Wilson

28:16 - Raiders Put Michael Mayer On Trade Block

29:54 - Tee Higgins Get Franchise Tag Again

32:11 - Tyler Lockett, Christian Kirk Set To Be Released

32:58 - Bears Trade For Joe Thuney, Jonah Jackson

36:44 - Texas WRs Golden, Bond Flash at Combine

39:07 - 2025’s Exciting Running Back Class

42:10 - 2025 Tight End Class Preview

44:23 - The Rise of Jaxson Dart

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to episode 845 of the official Establish the Run.com podcast.
0:21.7	My name is Adam Levittan.
0:22.7	As always, joined by Evan Silva, and the annual spectacle known as the NFL Combine
0:28.2	is indeed behind us now.
0:30.6	Evan, how's it going today?
0:32.7	It's going great.
0:33.2	I usually go to the Combine, and not this year because I'm doing this move.
0:36.5	But, you know,
0:38.2	certainly paid attention all week, have been ticking notes. And we're going to go through
0:44.3	our notes here today on this show. Yeah. Maybe you can tell people a little bit when you go to
0:48.6	the combine, what is it like? You're there as someone who is in the business, not a reporter, but in the
0:56.0	business, but there's also a lot of fans there. There's obviously a lot of coaches, a lot of
0:59.3	GMs, everything, maybe a loose overview for people of what it's like there in Indy during Combine
1:03.6	week. It is. So I never went to like go watch the workouts. I mean, you probably could have,
1:10.7	you know, when I worked for NBC, if I could like get credentialed or something, but I never went to like go watch the workouts. I mean, you probably could have when I worked for NBC if I could like get credentialed or something. But I never had interest in do that. It's doing that. It's all about networking. I mean, you sit down at a restaurant and you look over and there's freaking Jack Del Rio and there's Wink Martindale.
1:30.3	You know, it's like a who's who.
1:35.3	I mean, I'm standing next to Steve Belichick and Field Yates, you know, a couple years ago.
1:37.7	It's all about networking.
1:40.5	People tend to be approachable.
1:43.1	All the reporters are there. I mean, Diana Marie Rusini, you know, Jordan, our buddy who covers the Giants.
1:48.0	I'm hanging out with him and Jane Slater, you know, like it's an absolute who's who.
1:54.0	And you could just go to like, there's, you know, Indianapolis is not a big, not a particularly big city.
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